Ratings Reference
Telecasts · NBA

NBA Heat–Lakers

Nielsen average audience: 2,200,000 viewers (final), per Sports Media Watch.

Aired
2021-02-20 Saturday
Networks
ABC
Teams
Heat · Lakers
2,200,000
Nielsen avg audience · via press
single source · final
figures last changed 2021-02-25

Published figures

JSON
Nielsen1 figure
average audience
full telecast / TV only · final
press-attributed · Sports Media Watch
2,200,000
… Heat-Lakers drew a 1.3 and 2.20 million on ABC's NBA Saturday Primetime — up 18% and 29% respectively from the same weekend last year (Sixers-Bucks: 1.1, 1.71M). Sports Media Watch, verbatim
1 press attribution · no provider-published figure · single source
press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider

NBA 2020-21 season

65th of 177 published NBA figures in the 2020-21 season
Site-computed over the season's chart-eligible Nielsen average figures · computed 2026-10-30 23:13 UTC

Prior-season comparable

1,710,000
NBA 76ers–Bucks
2020-02-22 · ABC · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch
+28.7% vs the comparable
Site-computed: same league, same weekday, both on ABC, nearest to 52 weeks earlier; Nielsen average, final or revised.

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